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It started with a facebook comment. Someone said she would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Some incorrigible replied, what if you curse the darkness at both ends.
Burning the candle at both ends can cause spectacular light, but it is inefficient. You have to devise a way to hold it, and have something underneath it to catch the river of melted wax that will follow. A candle held perpendicular to earth will have a pool of melted wax below the wick. This wax will vaporize, and burn, and produce light. This pool of wax will last a long time, and not spill to the side. This is why the tiny tea candle lasts so long, because it is an efficient wax burning device. It has a metal cup at the bottom, which inhibits lighting at both ends.
Which brings us to cursing the darkness. This is the condition caused by the lack of light. This condition does not have top, bottom, nor sides. The room that is dark might, but the darkness itself is without boundaries. To curse the darkness at both ends would require you to know what those ends are. Perhaps they are measured in time, as when you light or extinguish a candle.
If darkness does not have a top or bottom, it does not have a front and back, or left or right. Whatever you say to/about the darkness, you will be speaking both to it’s face and behind it’s back. Not that it matters…darkness does not have ears, and is deaf as a doorknob.
Pictures for this episode are from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.The Plymouth dealership in picture six is the current site of the Cheetah.